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oxide
Part of speech: NounA mixture of oxygen and another element.
Usage examples "oxide":- Sore teats may be treated by applying the following ointment after each milking: vaseline ten parts and oxide of zinc one part. - "Common Diseases of Farm Animals", R. A. Craig, D. V. M..
- And here, too, let us remark, that as, during this long epoch we have been describing, the sea would have made great inroads on some of the newly- raised lands which had remained stationary; and would probably in some places have reached masses of igneous or metamorphic rocks; there might, in course of time, arise by the decomposition and denudation of such rocks, local deposits coloured with oxide of iron, like our Old Red Sandstone. - "Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I", Herbert Spencer.
- Examine some silver oxide, AgO, before the Bp. - "The Elements of Blowpipe Analysis", Frederick Hutton Getman.